RE: Sql Developer

What's DBMS_METADATA_UTIL? 
 
I've written a package that calls DBMS_METADATA (10g) to produce the DDL to 
recreate an entire schema, and it works great.  I can't find any reference in 
the docs to DBMS_METADATA_UTIL.
 

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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:42 PM
To: ddavey@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Sql Developer


On 6/13/07, Davey, Alan <ddavey@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ddavey@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: 

My biggest problem with SQL Developer compared to Toad is that the sql 
formatter when used on pl/sql code sucks.


The folks mostly responsible for SQL-Developer are Kris Rice and Sue Harper.

Blogs:  
http://krisrice.blogspot.com/ <http://krisrice.blogspot.com/> 
http://sueharper.blogspot.com/ <http://sueharper.blogspot.com/> 

They are well aware of problems with dbms_metadata_util.

They also have no power to fix it.

Seems rather strange that a package that is so potentially useful
has such a fatal flaw, and one that should be easily fixed.

For the un-initiated, DDL output from dbms_metadata_util always 
needs to be reformatted before being used, making it rather useless
for anything large scale.

There are alternatives.

Taking an export of a schema and stripping out the SQL is do-able.

I've done so with Perl, though awk/sed/grep could do it as well. 

Even better, if you use Perl, DDL::Oracle will pull DDL from the database,
and it doesn't require reformatting.

-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist


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